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Billie Holiday- «Lady Day » April 7, 1915- July 17, 1959

Billie Holiday- «Lady Day » April 7, 1915- July 17, 1959. Amanda DeRose-Oliver Music-1040. “I do not think I’m singing, I feel like I’m playing a horn. What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing, I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That is all I know”. Child Hood.

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Billie Holiday- «Lady Day » April 7, 1915- July 17, 1959

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  1. Billie Holiday- «Lady Day »April 7, 1915- July 17, 1959 Amanda DeRose-Oliver Music-1040 “I do not think I’m singing, I feel like I’m playing a horn. What comes out is what I feel. I hate straight singing, I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That is all I know”

  2. Child Hood Elanora Fagan; Born on April 7, 1915 in Philadelphia to Sadie Fagan and Clarence Holiday. At the age of 10 years old, she was raped by an older man. Saying it was provoked, she was forced to go live at The Good Shepard Center in Halethorpe, a place for emotionally and behaviorally problematic girls. At the age of 13 she was arrested for prostitution. She began singing clubs and bars to support herself and her sick mother.

  3. Elanora Fagan changed her name to Billie Holiday after her favorite actress Billie Dove and her fathers sur name.Her biggest influences were Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong.

  4. ‘Lady Day’ Made her first record with producer John Hammond. Given the nickname “Lady Day” by tenor man Lester Young. Sang the song “Strange fruit” at The Café Society, a club that played both white and black music artist concerts. Even with white people objecting the song, it became a hit!

  5. ‘Duke Ellington's- Symphony in Black’; A cinematic account of Afro-American culture. Listenfor: -heavysyncopation -voice lags behind the beat -collective improvisation of many instruments. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqszf_billy-holiday-duke-ellington_music 19 tear old Billie’s first large audience viewed cinema performance. Sang the second song of the performance called “The Triangle”; also known as the “saddest song”. Billie plays a jilted and abused lover. Very similar to her own life. Performed for only a few bars, but stirred great emotion in the audience.

  6. ‘Strange Fruit-’ 1939 Listen for: -slow-pace singing with voice just behind the beat. -voicesoundmimicshorn instrument -protestsong -jazz standard www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs Jazz and Blues song A protest song about the southern lynching’s of black people. Originally written by Abel Meeropol; (ghost name ‘Lewis Allen’), a white man from New York. Played at The Café Society in Greenwich Village. They catered to both black and white performers.

  7. Billie’s Blues: Drugs and alcohol May 1947: arrested for possession of narcotics. She served nearly 10 months. Ten days after her release she played Carnegie Hall for her first time, this was in March of 1948. Sold-out show-2,700 tickets pre-sold. The record for Carnegie Hall at the time. The Cabaret system of the 1940’s prevented anyone with “bad character” from working on licensed premises. Worked only theaters and concert halls for her last 12 years.

  8. ‘lady Sings the Blues’ *This Song speaks of Billies life; teenage prostitution, drug/alcohol abuse, abusive men, jail time, and corupt cops without self pity. *Billie and Herbie Nicholswrote ‘Lady sings the blues’. *Billie alsowrote or co-wrote; ‘GodBless the Child’ (inductedinto the NARAS Hall Of Fame in 1941), ‘Don’tExplain ’, and ‘Fine and Mellow’ as well as others. Listen for: -free style blues form -Heavy syncopation -trajicmelody -voicecarry’swith the instruments. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzgG8jtymCU Lady Sings The Blues is the title of Billie’s autobiography that was co-written by friend William Duffy. Performed in 1956 at Carnegie Hall- Two sold out shows!! This was incredible considering the practiced segregation occurring at this time in America. On July 17, 1959, with more debt then money due to horrible men in her life and being guarded by police for yet more drug suspicion, The beautiful Billie Holiday died.

  9. July 17, 1959

  10. Bibliography Blair, Elizabeth. <em>The Strange Story Of The Man Behind 'Strange Fruit'.</em>. NPR, 2012. Web. <www.npr.org/2012/09/.../the-strange-story-of-the-man-behind-strange-fruit>. Ember, Steve, and Shirley Griffith. <em>Billie Holiday 1915-1959:The Lady Sang The Blues</em>. Web. www.manythings.org/voa/people/Billie_Holiday.html. The Official Billie Holiday Site <em>The Official Site of Lady Day</em>. Web. <www.billieholiday.com>. Hagen, Kathleen. <em>Billie Holiday:Wishing on the Moon</em>. Web. <books.google.com/books?isbn=0786730870>. Hamlin, Jessie. <em>Billie Holiday's Autobiography, "Lady Sings the Blues"</em>. Web. <http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Billie-Holiday-s-bio-Lady-Sings-the-Blues-may-2469428.php>. Kempton,Arthur.<em>StreetDiva</em>. Web. <www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2005/july14/street-diva/?pagination...> Soulpatrol, Soul patrol. <em>Billy Holiday-Duke Ellington-Video Daily Motion</em>. Web. <http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqszf_billy-holiday_duke-ellington_music>. Yanow, Scott. <em>Billies Blues [Blue Note]</em>. Web. <www.allmusic.com/album/billies-blues-note-mw0000195791>.

  11. Youtube Video, Lady Sings The Blues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzgG8jtymCU Youtube video, Strange Fruit www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

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